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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (1): 106-116.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.789

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Relationship between rapid transportation, tourism economy and tourism eco-efficiency in China based on PVAR model

LI Yaru1,2(), BAI Yang1,2(), ZHOU Chunshan3, CHEN Mingzhu1,2   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of the Sustainable Development of Xinjiang’s Historical and Cultural Tourism, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
    2 College of Tourism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
    3 School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, China
  • Received:2024-12-25 Revised:2025-03-20 Online:2026-01-25 Published:2026-01-18
  • Contact: BAI Yang E-mail:liyaru20002023@163.com;baiyang@xju.edu.cn

Abstract:

The coordinated interaction among rapid transportation, tourism economy, and tourism eco-efficiency is crucial for promoting the green transformation of tourism and achieving high-quality development. Based on China’s provincial panel data from 2009 to 2022, this study constructs a panel vector autoregression model to explore the interaction mechanisms, dynamic relationships, and regional heterogeneity among the three elements. The findings reveal that (1) Rapid transportation, tourism economy, and tourism eco-efficiency all exhibit positive growth trends, with a mainstream transition toward a benign equilibrium supported by gradual development from lower to higher levels. (2) Bidirectional Granger causality exists between rapid transportation and the tourism economy at both the national and eastern regional levels, implying a positive but short-lived interactive response. Rapid transportation has strong self-reinforcing characteristics, while the tourism economy is primarily self-driven yet significantly influenced by rapid transportation. (3) Only unidirectional Granger causality is observed between rapid transportation and tourism eco-efficiency. The positive driving effect of rapid transportation on tourism eco-efficiency tends to fluctuate and diminish, while the impact of tourism eco-efficiency on rapid transportation remains weak. Their interaction is notably imbalanced, with low mutual variance contribution rates. (4) Bidirectional Granger causality between the tourism economy and tourism eco-efficiency exists at the national level, characterized by strong and effective short-term driving of the tourism economy, which contrasts with the persistent weakness and disorderly effects of tourism eco-efficiency. Tourism eco-efficiency lacks sufficient endogenous momentum, with the tourism economy contributing the most to its variance in the eastern and central regions.

Key words: rapid transportation, tourism economy, tourism eco-efficiency, PVAR model